The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-12
THE EXECUTED FOUR.
Their Behavior Before the
Drop was Sprung.
THE DREAD MASSACRE AT0NED
The Complete Arrangsments-Pris
DiseIplins-EmbAlm Tho Flu
neral-NOtes EIseWhe
The Anarchist Hanging.

The Anarchist Hanging.
THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE
HANGING.
CHICAGO, November 11.-Following is
Sheriff Matsons official declaration
that the hanging had taken place:
I Canute &. Matson, Sheriff of Cook
County, Illinois, do hereby certify thst on
the 18th day OF November, 1887, between the
hours of 10 O'Clock in the forenoon and 4
O'Clock in the afternoon of that day, at II 81
O'Clock a. m of said d y, in tn common
jail of said couuty, did, as said Sheriff,
duly execute August Spies, Adolph Fis her,
George Engef and A. K. Parsons, in con-
formity with the sentence OF the Criminal
Court of said County of Cook, in pursuance
of the order and Judgment Of the Superior
Court of Illinois, for the northern grand
division, made and entered in the record on
the 18th day of september 1887, and in &C
eordance with the statutes of the State of
Illinois in such eases made and provided.
(signcd) CAEUrE Z. MAGS0N.
THE WITNESSES CERTIFICAT1oE.
1--WE, the undersigned, who are not rels-
tives of the above-named August Spies or
others, hereby certify that we have wit
messed the execution by hanging of the said
August Spies and Others and IN the above
certificate set forth.
The signatures of twelve Chicago
citizens are appended to the solemn
declarations above, and with them
form the essential public record OF the
death of the Haymarket murderers. A
I more
UTTER CONTEMPT OF DEATH
was probably never shown by any four
men. From the first moments of the
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they Would not see a shadow either nf
ignominv or the hereafter. The seven
hours from dawn until the hour they
passed to eternity, were crowded full
with events, stirring as day OF battle,
beginning with the fat refusal, in the
Very teeth of death, to accept word
of comfort from the reverend minister
of religion. OF their number, Fischer
sang to the jailor and the world
THE SONG OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,
the famous "Marseilles." Then, with
seemingly no thought of the dread
massacre at the Haymarket, the four
prepsred for their march toward the
gaIloWs. almost as if it were pleasant
holiday excursion. Extraordinary as
we're the scenes presented at this mo-
ment. It was not until the men stepped
upon the gallows that the great climax
came. The 200 and more writers, with
nimble fingers waiting to spread the
news to the farthest bounds of the
earth, had almost to a man gathered IN
the north corridor of the jail. There,
for Just one hour, they were imprisoned
in front of the dull-red scattold. Not
many of the 200 were present that did
not sit uneasily upon his chair, think
ing rapidly of the coming doom of their
fellow creatures, or perhaps even more
of the vague possibility Of the jail and
all within its walls being
BLOWN TO THE BLUE SKY
by Anarchistic dynamite. The long
hour was not half completed when, in
the iail's distant south corridor, unseen
and unheard by the main body OF the
reporters, Sheriff Matson, at LIZ am.
accompanied by the grim. old jailor
Folz. the manly looking Rev. DR..
Bolton and a score of stalwart depu-
ties stepped close to the open grating
of August Spies cell, preparatory to
reading the death warrant to the four
men. Twenty minutes we're occupied
in this trying formality, rendered
doubIy an ordeal by the horrible ST
Ience prevailing and by the sickening |
odors coming from the room where lay |
THE BLOODY CORPSE
of their late comrade, Louis Lingg, the
suicide.
The sheriff was addressing Adolph |
Fischer, who was even more Indifferent |
than Spies at the formality. Like |
Spies. he told the sheriff that it was q |
judicial murder. Fischer had his !
SLOUGH hat on: but removed it as he !
stepped out of his cell. He was neatly |
dressed in a blue flannel shirt new |
dark breeches and had been shaved |
but q few hours before. He nodded |
to Spies and asked in a pleasant man !
ner in German how he felt. Spies
smiled good-naturedly and replied that |
he felt first rate. Engel heard the
reading of the death warrant with
sFoL1D INDIFFERENCE
and did not utter a single word OF com-
ment. a few minutes later, while
standiug beside Spies and Fischer, he
said: "Well?' as if to inquire their feel
ings. Spies and Fischer replied by
smiling cheerfully, and nodding. Before
their arms were pinioned, all of the
men shook hands with Jailor Folz, and
the deputies surrounding him, with all
of whom they had become acquainted
during their many months contlne-
ment.
PARSONS WARRANT WAS BEAD LAST.
He seemed to have nerved himself up
se q great tension. and had nothing 10